Loki Listens

I don’t know what this is. Let me start by saying that is thought flow fiction(an idea I’m running with), and there for is not meant to be taken literally. I don’t hold back, but I do try to center on an idea….

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Raven is an old man now. He doesn’t look like an old man. He doesn’t act like an old man. But he feels like an old man, and that does, in fact, make him one.You see, Raven has been Raven for a very long time. He’s forgotten what he was before he was Raven. He’s just been Raven so long. He thinks he would like to be something else for a while. When he starts to think about taking another form, he cannot find a creature in his mind he would rather be.

The humans are too silly, and they don’t seem to last like his family. But he can’t just take over a spot in the family. Not even if he wanted to. Cousin Crow laughs a lot, works on instinct than brains though. Brother Eagle takes himself way too seriously. Father Roc has been missing lately, but he wouldn’t want that role either. Sister Seagull? Raven had never really liked fish. Sure, he could call to his land Cousins, be Tiger for a while, or maybe Wolf. Old Man Coyote is completely mad they say. But Raven had a peculiar appetite for knowledge.

The silly humans might be the idea, they seemed to appreciate knowledge.

Raven knew many things and many people. He was Hugin and Munin, after all. Old Odin would know what he should do to become a human. Odin knows everything.

Raven went to Odin. “Oh, Odin, All-Father, what might Raven do to become human for a while? I have brought you much knowledge, and my question is within reason of an answer”

Odin laughed for a very long time. If Raven had any strength at all, it was patience.

When Odin stopped laughing, he grabbed Raven by the wings. Odin threw Raven at the ground with all of his strength, which is pretty hard, even for an old god like Odin. Raven’s eyelids closed for the first time ever.

Raven felt the impact and a strange pain. Raven stood up! STOOD! He was human!

And then… Some other stuff.

-Loki
fiction.

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